{"product_id":"occupied-city-book-two-of-the-tokyo-trilogy-paperback","title":"Occupied City: Book Two of the Tokyo Trilogy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Peace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An extraordinary and highly original crime novel\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) that plunges us into post-World War II Occupied Japan in a Rashomon-like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hugely daring, utterly irresistible, deeply serious and unlike anything I have ever read.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he explains, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the \"official\" has fled.... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks, for all the victims, from the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of one of the case detectives, the desperate letters of an American occupier, the testimony of a traumatized survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, an \"occult detective,\" a Soviet soldier, a well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOccupied City\u003c\/i\u003e immerses us in an extreme time and place with a brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, mesmerizing narrative. It is a stunningly audacious work of fiction from a singular writer.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Peace\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of The Red Riding Quartet\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGB84, The Damned Utd, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Tokyo Year Zero. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was chosen as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's 2003 Best Young British Novelists, and has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign Novel. He lives in Yorkshire, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8 x 5.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759293956384,"sku":"9780307276513","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/91720e1ace00bb7f05fa539911c76a3d.webp?v=1780148335","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/occupied-city-book-two-of-the-tokyo-trilogy-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}